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POV: What the dog does when no one’s at home
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'xlogo' is close to the simplest possible X11 program. But it has so many uses.
• A ruler! Make an xlogo, drag it to a size, and if your WM shows a size tooltip as you drag, you can measure distances in pixels. Any X11 app works for this (unless it's sized in character cells or something) but you want one that doesn't try to do any actual _stuff_ as a side effect.
• Also, in reverse, 'xlogo -geometry 1920x1080' and then you have a nice rectangle you can check if some other window fits into.
• An alarm clock! Sleep until a certain time and then open an xlogo too large to miss. Doesn't disturb your colleagues, but if you're looking away when it appears, that's fine, it's still there.
• A colour chart! What do those names like 'OliveDrab' mean anyway? 'xlogo -bg thingy'
• An inert X session-lifetime process, if anyone still uses those.
• Just occasionally, you might even want to display the X11 logo, or find out how to. (The xlogo source is the official definition of the logo.)
A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and a distraught alien emerged.
"What's happened to the library? It's gone! The one thing your civilization had going-"
"They moved to a new building," a passer-by said. "Don't you have ways of finding these things out?"
"Yes. I ask at the library."
Yesterday at the supermarket checkout in front of me was a boy of maybe 8, 9 years or so who only wanted his bottle deposit back.
What warmed my heart was that he had a whole arm full of library books. I wouldn't have pegged him as a reader, but apparently he was. I loved seeing that.
Sometimes what we need to hear isn't
"You can do it!"
Or
"Don't give up!"
but instead
"It's okay to realize something isn't working for you."
Or
"You can try again later."
Or even
"You didn't fail. You learned something, and that counts."
Sometimes pushing hard and cheering someone on is helpful to them. But it's just as important to realize when someone needs your compassion and gentleness, and to hear that they're still wonderful in your eyes if they don't, or didn't, meet their goals.
Just a few words of dragon wisdom.
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...I'm getting the feeling that this is one of those "Bwee secretly talking to themself" posts.
*hugs tight*
Someday doesn't have to be today. Baby steps are better than trying to do it all at once. The important thing is that, no matter how slowly, no matter how small the steps are and no matter how infrequent, you keep putting one foot in front of the other.
💙
@AVincentInSpace *smiles* Got it, sorta.
I had a lot of "you can do it" responses to my post where I said I was trying to quit smoking. And it ended up making me put a lot of pressure on myself and freaking out when I couldn't do it. I really needed someone to say "It's noble to try, but if you have to try something else later if this attempt doesn't work out, that's okay too."
Yeah. That.
You can admit something didn't work. You can learn from an experience, and that makes it not a failure. You can strategize and plan for next time. You can give yourself a break before working up the nerve to try again.
The one thing you *can't* do is say you're never going to successfully quit so why bother to try?
*That's* what I mean when I say "don't give up!" Not "I'll be disappointed if you don't do it this time." Not "you're at the starting line of a marathon, and if we just cheer hard enough, we know our Bwee isn't going to trip or run out of breath".
Marathons are hard even for really fit people, and your lungs aren't in the best shape. You're gonna stop for breath. You're gonna stumble. And sometimes it's gonna feel like you got dragged all the way back to the start. You can walk the whole way. You can stop for breath for 20 minutes every 500 steps. You can not take a single step for a month. You can take 10 years to get 26.2 miles.
But don't you *dare* turn around.
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We're gonna be there to pick you up every time you trip (like we did the other day), and pour water in your mouth when you get thirsty. And you best believe that when you finally cross that finish line (and at every single mile marker between now and then!) we're gonna celebrate like Trump died, no matter how long it takes.
Our faith in you was NOT misplaced. You're still trying. **That means you haven't failed.** You won't have failed until you decide you're not going to try to quit after all.
(And for the record, if you made a post tomorrow that said "I've decided that trying to quit is too hard and not worth it, and I'll probably smoke till I'm on my death bed", I'd be disappointed. I'd be very disappointed. But I wouldn't stop loving you. (Platonically.) I'd show up in your mentions every single day, hugging and smuggling and doing everything I know how to make you happy, because I like seeing you happy.)
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But that's not the Bwee I know. And if you post your one month smoke free fifteen years from today, and then have another cigarette the day after, I'll still be cheering for you, and I'll fight you tooth, nail, and electric-shock-giving tentacle tip if you try to call that failure.
And I'll also turn all those same weapons on anyone else in your replies who does.
3/3
"Excuse me," the man at the bar said, "but I couldn't help overhearing. Are you really saying you refuse to pick one?"
"I don't see why I should have to."
"It's a core part of one's identity!"
"My gender and sexuality-"
"Oh!" He looked relieved. "I thought you were talking about football teams."
I'm always kind of impressed by people who move to where the rival of their team is based and are open about their affiliation.
I'm not a club football bloke but some people get way too intense about it!
Watercolor Studies: Koda in Riomaggiore (4/20)
Riomaggiore was my absolute favorite from all the villages of Cinque Terre, all five are wonderful but if I had to make a top favorites, this one would be on my number 1. Labyrinthine, narrow, mysterious, where you turned corners and arrived at impressive and unexpected places, streets were only stairs, going up and down, suddenly the streets were tunnels that passed under the mountains, and suddenly you arrived at a beach. I chose many spots from Riomaggiore that you may see on upcoming days.
And here you can see Koda, the wah, walking the narrow streets of Riomaggiore, with the ocean on the background.
We are the guests of honor for Pawstral in Chile!August 21 to 23. We have SO much prepared for this con!!!Get your tickets at pawstral.clAnimation by @silver...YouTube
Sometimes you just need to spend some time contemplating the sea. ❤ #FursuitFriday
Fozzaroo, Morro, @leggy2fast, Graham
First #FursuitFriday after EMF!
Have some EMF Pestings!
I found a load of blinkenlights on my jollies!
Content warning: Somewhat dark burrs, death mention
Soft bean mood 💚
🪡: Faruku
📷: HoneyFolf
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I have an open source sudoku app that I can import new puzzles in a thousand at a time, I go for medium because I can solve them in 5-8 minutes which is just enough time to do a couple during a work break
... a couple dozen, then it's time for lunch
"I'm bored," Zenon said. "Are we there yet?"
"I told you," Odysseus growled, "to stop asking that."
"Oh yeah? What are you going to do, somehow double the time we have left to go?"
"Yes! Every time you ask! Just to spite you!"
"Pfff. Are we there yet?"
"Britain today is a powerhouse of ideas, experiments, imagination"
We could offer a full time night time laser enhancement to the #emfcamp sign if people fancied it? Plus photographic lighting for a proper selfie spot? This was a random test I did with battery powered kit on Saturday night (thanks to the passing stranger who agreed to wave the portable fog machine around whilst I took the picture). #emfcamp2026
Follow me for the Full Version 🫶What are your thoughts on Suno? LOVE IS THE ANSWER#dnb #drumandbass #loveistheanswerYouTube
RE: https://mas.to/@skeletor/116960140234120064
Good advice from a blue man with a skull for a face. *nods*
I noticed a neighbour had set up a little library box in their front yard. I checked the books and saw they were all jumbled up.
I had only moved a few when a net fell on me.
"Gotcha! Oh..."
"What's going on?" I asked.
"There's a feral librarian around."
"Ah. Catch, tag, feed, release?"
"Yup."
I was waiting for my robot friend when a sleek stranger came up to me.
"Hi!" they said.
"Um... hi?"
"Oh, sorry."
My phone pinged with a text from my friend: "Body's in for service, this is a loaner."
"Oh!" I said. "Er... Is it nice?"
"Can't wait to go back. This is..."
"Not you?"
"Not me."
Your friend is cheap.
Get the loaner with morphic nanites and soul transference...
...I bet your "friend" still owes you that twenty you loaned them years ago.
(many such occasions)